Trisha Meili

Trisha Meili (24 June 1960-) was a New York investment banker who, on 19 April 1989, was savagely beaten and raped by Matias Reyes in Central Park. She was hit so hard on the head that she lost her memory of the incident, her sense of smell, and some of her walking capabilities, and, due to her inability to state the wrongfully accused defendants Antron McCray, Raymond Santana, and Yusef Salaam were innocent (as she had no recollection of the incident), the three boys and two others (Kevin Richardson and Korey Wise) were convicted and sentenced to 5-10 years in a detention facility.

Biography
Trisha Ellen Meili was born in Paramus, New Jersey in 1960 and raised in the Pittsburgh suburb of Upper St. Clair, Pennsylvania. In 1986, she became an associate at the Salomon Brothers corporate finance department an energy group, later becoming a Vice President. She lived on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, and she had a hobby of jogging, eventually being able to run a mile in eight minutes. On the night of 19 April 1989, after leaving work and changing, she went for a jog in Central Park, where she was attacked by Matias Reyes, who hit her in the head with a blunt object and proceeded to rape her. He left her for dead in a pool of her own blood with a severe head wound, and she was later found by the NYPD and taken to the Metropolitan Hospital, where Robert Kurtz and his team helped her recover. She lost her memory of the incident as well as her sense of smell, and she walked with a considerable limp in the immediate aftermath of the attack. In 1990, she was called to testify in the "Central Park jogger case" as a witness for the prosecution, but she was unable to remember any part of the incident or the perpetrator(s). She would later come to believe in their coerced confessions and refused to rule out that they were innocent, and she later moved to Florida and became a motivational speaker.